Price of Management

I did not know how much this would change the history of the Kingdom of Leaden and the entire continent.

That made me nervous. Erik, the king who suggested a match.

The Kunt family has grown up because of me.

Territory War…….

Maybe I'm the reason for the upheaval in new history.

And what was really frightening was whether that turbulence swept through my life wanting to live as a bystander.

But I struggled, shaking my head, to get rid of my anxiety.

You've already died once, haven't you?

You've lived long enough, right?

What are you afraid of? I'll just die one more time.

Life is random after all.

As I left the mansion after the meeting, I consoled myself.

* * *

Afterwards, Arthur untied the spy and recognized the trends of the two birds.

The two dictators, as predicted, were clearly preparing for war, such as training a large army.

The prediction is correct.

When we were confident that there would be a war, we also went into preparing for war.

Arthur immediately bought 200 horses and spread the word that he was recruiting soldiers.

As expected, a lot of young men from the slums volunteered. Arthur chose to be from the Slum and accepted it.

I visited the mercenary guild and informed them that war is imminent in the Kunt order.

There were rumors of war in the mercenary industry.

After the spring civil war, mercenaries came from everywhere like clouds.

While I was distracted by the preparations for war, the council was well organized by the three employees.

Hansen, the son of a pharmacist, who is knowledgeable about herbs, went around the herb field and examined whether the crops were growing well.

Sis is in charge of the expenses.

It was a sheath, rather than having no sense of money, but as a wizard, it was strong in numbers. I kept track of how much money was coming in and out.

And Julia...

“Shortie! Shortie, don't you have to start building my house now? ”

“What are you talking about? I'm busy.”

“Seems a little pathetic to live in an inn with me and Sis. ”

“Why are you so pathetic? You don't have to save the house. How good is it? ”

“Shorty now has tens of thousands of Redinas and titles and territories. But staying at the inn doesn't make me embarrassed! ”

“But that's... it's annoying. ”

“Danjuni! Don't be like that. Let's do this. We build a big, nice house, and we live together as a single mom and me and three Sis. What do you think?”

Aha. So you can build a house without spending money.

You don't have to live in a small inn.

That was your plan?

“You're rolling all the hairs to get a house without spending money. No, it's a waste of money. You don't need a home. ”

“Who says you don't pay a dime? Me and Sis will pay 50 Redinas, so use 300. Then I'll take charge and hire a worker and an architect to make a nice house. ”

A total of 400 radias.... It's cheaper than Julia's restaurant.

Unlike the wealthy Kingdom of Leaden, if you spend 400 Redinas on this priceless piece of land, you can build a decent mansion.

“Woohoo. Isn't it too nice to imagine hanging out in the same house with two beautiful women? ”

Hmm, wow, that's definitely good.

It was really nice to imagine, but I didn't feel out of place.

“Are you wearing a beauty makeover? ”

“ ……. ”

“... But even so, we need to hire servants to fix the household. What's your monthly salary? Besides, I don't like chaos. ”

“We can share the household. ”

“Us? I don't suppose that category includes me? ”

“Yes, short-term laundry and cleaning. ”

“Are you crazy? You want to get fired? ”

Julia is furious.

“If you ask Woundee to do it, she'll do it in 10 seconds! ”

“Oh, that's right. What about you?”

“I'll cook. I'll make you a snack, of course. I was a restaurant owner. You're a good cook. And he can do the dishes. ”

“No, we can have Woundee do the dishes. ”

Julia stares at me in horror.

“Why are you looking at me like that? You got a problem with that?”

“Why are you so fond of Sis? Apparently, you're not even in love yet. That's too much!”

“Sis is beautiful and you're not. ”

“I'm not pretty?! ”

“Yes, yes, I'll fix it. Sis is gorgeous. You're just gorgeous. ”

I'll concede.

You're just pretty.

But Sis is so beautiful.

“I can't admit it! What makes you think I'm any prettier than cis? Of course, cis is pretty, but wouldn't I be more charming if I were a woman? ”

Then she sticks out her chest.

“Look! The perfect body that leads to this big chest, waist, and ass! Keep your eyes open! ”

Man, he ain't ashamed of it.

But I have to show you that I'm not.

I look at Julia's breasts with my face closed.

“Hmm, it sure looks big. It's a little bit bigger than the average woman I've seen. ”

As my breath approached my breasts, Julia's cheeks began to turn red.

I stared at Julia's ass this time.

“Well, my butt is pretty.... ”

“Y-yeah…! ”

“This what? ”

“You pervert! Don't look at me!”

Yikes!

“Huff!”

You told me to keep your eyes open!

I was struck down by Julia's wrath and rolled to the ground.

Julia leaves in a loud voice.

Soon, however, he stopped walking and turned around and shouted.

“Anyway, you agreed. I'll have cis take 300 Redinas off the books separately! ”

The first goal is never to forget, and it must be achieved, Julia. What a golden woman of the future.

Maybe I've welcomed a woman I can't handle as a servant.

* * *

Julia walks into the office in a loud, angry pace.

“I'm a woman, you son of a bitch! ”

Her face is red as a scarlet.

* * *

After a harsh fall of the Great Plague, I entered a harsh winter.

Humans are terrified, wondering how they can withstand the freezing winter with their lack of food.

Children who ate worms in the mountains and ate bark died frozen in snow piles up to their waists because they had nothing to eat.

When I woke up, my neighbor was often found cold.

Humans, the masters of the continent, seemed to have completely lost their energy as if they were hibernating in winter.

However, there were different aspects of the Kunt Order.

Four hundred strong horses hurl hard through the snow. Four hundred cavalry men trained with my father.

In February.

It was still a time when the cold of winter had not subsided.

Two hundred of the existing cavalry members and 200 of the new cavalry members elected last November entered the training under the command of their father.

Usually, my father, who was obsessed with practicing swordsmanship, would step up and train the cavalry by himself.

No matter how hard I trained, the new cavalry, who were too tired to ride in armor, are now naturally reunited with the existing cavalry.

However, he was not satisfied and continued to kill the cavalry.

It was because the cavalry was the key to winning the spring war.

It became an everyday landscape for the cavalry to roam through the territory every day.

The number of mercenaries pouring into the territory has increased, so everyone knows that the war is coming soon.

Even though Arthur was working on repairing the wall, the permanent residents came without complaint.

Julia hired an architect to start designing her mansion, and her work was significantly delayed due to the rolling snowfall every day.

So I was dying of agony.

And why is that?

Julia was staying at Max's Resting House with me, and it was right next door to me.

Imagine there's a massive complainer in the next room.

Don't you have a fireplace in winter? So much for the two Redinas a month without heating. Shouldn't we be repairing the new window? The cold winds keep coming in! ’When my back is stiff, I call my master Max and nag him. I can hear it in my ears in the next room.

Poor Max swoops in.

Now I'm surprised to see not only Julia, but a woman with red hair.

As a mercenary, he told me that he had a habit of shaking his hands when he was anxious.

There was nothing I could do except beg for the mansion to be completed quickly.

I don't have the heart for that.

First, I sent 5,000 Redinas to the writer Houdini. It was supposed to pay for 40,000 sacks of wheat by this winter.

Perhaps my former father-in-law will be upset by the 5,000 Redinas I sent him.

Hahahaha.

I repaired and reinforced the walls and defenses every day after solving the wheat payment like that.

It was easy to use gnomes to fortify the walls and set up obstacles on the enemy's intrusion routes.

As I spent my day preparing for the war, I met an unexpected and delightful guest.

“Confucius Caroc. ”

A group of 50 mercenaries approached me.

The two men at the forefront of it were familiar faces to me.

“Dean? Lex? ”

“It's been a long time, Duke. ”

“You should call me Baron now. ”

Dean's eyes widened in my words.

“Have you received your title? ”

“Tsk, tsk, the news must be slow. ”

“Haha, congratulations anyway, Baron. You should call me Dean, too. ”

We laughed joyfully.

Surprisingly, within just a year, Dean had become the head of a medium-ranking mercenary army.

Only 50 members!

Like Dean's mercenaries from the Horn Empire, the weapons were united into spears, and thievery and vigor were fixed.

Weapons didn't look like mercenaries, either.